Striving for computing simplicity
I wanted to be able to quickly open a folder in TextMate (i.e. as a project) using Quicksilver. Even though it is pretty simple, it took me a little while to figure it out so I figured I’d post it here. Invoke Quicksilver Browse (see tip 11) to the directory Tab Open With… Tab TextMate [...]
I had actually removed all stacks from my dock but this one actually looks like it might be useful. To enable it, run the following command: <!– Code highlighting produced by Actipro CodeHighlighter (freeware) http://www.CodeHighlighter.com/ –>defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add ‘{ “tile-data” = { “list-type” = 1; }; “tile-type” = “recents-tile”; }’ Then [...]
Open Keychain Access and launch the preferences (Command + ,). Check the Show Status in Menu Bar checkbox. There will be a new padlock icon in the menu bar. Click it and choose Lock Screen from the menu.
I picked up a couple of nice tips from this Hack the Day post. I especially like the F1-F12 tip. I was annoyed by the fact that I used to have to press fn + F9 to invoke Expose, fn + F8 to invokes Spaces, etc. but never really looked into how to fix it. [...]
Looks like I’ll have to wait on the VMWare Fusion 1.1 upgrade.
Just some things I noticed online today. First Leopard Update released. Here is the fix list. Quicksilver top 10 plugins. Use rsync to emulate Time Machine VMWare Fusion 1.1 released. Release notes here.
One problem I ran into with my new Time Machine setup was that my large virtual machine disk files were aggressively being backed every time they changed. Since each virtual machine is extremely large (multiple GBs each) and since Time Machine backs up an entire file each time it changes, I was quickly eating up [...]
This is a great review about Time Machine as part of a larger (enormous) review of Leopard. In typical ars technica fashion, it dives deep into how Time Machine actually works for those into that sort of thing.
So I finally got around to setting up Time Machine. I actually needed to get a supported external hard drive first. I ended up buying the Lacie D2 HD Quadra. This drive boasts 500 GBs of storage, 7200 RPMs, and USB2, Firewire 400/800, and eSata interfaces. Setting up Time Machine was as easy as advertised. [...]